WACO, Texas (KWTX) – Television host and author Shemane Nugent is suing Meta Platforms after she alleges an “offshore hacker” took over her Facebook page last month and has locked her out of control over its contents.

Retired State District Judge Vicki Menard on Friday issued a temporary restraining order sought by Nugent through her lawsuit that orders Meta to immediately remove the unauthorized content posted on Nugent’s public-figure Facebook page since Feb. 5 and to immediately restore Nugent’s access to her verified Facebook account.

The TRO also orders Meta to prevent additional unauthorized intrusion or access to the account and to track and record logins, posts and other activity involving her page “so that proper relief may be obtained from the person or persons responsible, whether criminally or civilly.”

A recorded message at the Meta Platform office in Menlo Park, Calif., said no one was available Friday to answer the phone.

A hearing has been set for April 3 at which Nugent will attempt to turn the TRO into a temporary injunction until the merits of the lawsuit can be heard.

Nugent, wife of ‘70s rock star and conservative activist Ted Nugent, is a well-known public figure and health advocate with 272,000 followers on her Facebook page, according to the lawsuit.

“This action is brought to seek justice and immediate relief for plaintiff as well as to blaze a pathway for other Facebook users who find themselves caught in a similar hellish trap,” the lawsuit states.

The suit, filed in Waco’s 170th State District Court on Nugent’s behalf by Waco attorney David Tekell, alleges Nugent was contacted Feb. 5 by an “unknown hacker” posing as a staff member of a prominent female author, podcaster and public speaker who shares Nugent’s interests in healthy living and holistic medicine.

“Posing as an agent for this potential collaborator, this thief falsely represented his identity,” according to the lawsuit. “He fraudulently told plaintiff that sharing her Facebook page information was necessary for the proposed (and now known to be fraudulent) collaboration.

“With these and other false representations, he duped Shemane into providing enough personal information so that the thief was then able to acquire her secret credentials to her Facebook page. Then this thief, secretly and without Shemane’s authorization, changed the login credentials to Shemane’s Facebook page to himself so that he could control her page.”

The unknown hacker has been using Nugent’s public-figure Facebook page since Feb 5, including her photos, videos and voice recordings, to promote posts, advertisements and “click-bait for his own benefit and profit,” the lawsuit alleges.

“Many of these posts and accompanying advertisements are antithetic to Shemane’s well-known conservative Christian values,” the suit claims.

Nugent has tried to contact Meta to let officials there know about the hack and to seek their assistance in regaining control of her Facebook page. “However, it is impossible to reach and communicate with a live person from Facebook,” the suit alleges.

Besides the injunctive relief, Nugent is seeking more than $250,000 in damages in her lawsuit.

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